Sunday, January 30, 2022

Chocolat Chaud - French Hot Chocolate

This Chocolat Chaud aka French Hot Chocolate is made the old-fashioned way with hot milk and rich dark 85% cocoa chocolate. Add sugar or don't, to taste. In France, many don't add sugar but I need a little!

Food Lust People Love: This chocolat chaud aka French Hot Chocolate is made the old fashioned way with hot milk and rich dark 85% cocoa chocolate. Add sugar or don't, to taste.

Years ago when we lived in Paris, it was a special treat to go out to a café for a café crème or chocolat chaud. In fact, we had a running joke about finding the most expensive cup of coffee. I think the winner was a café on the Champs-Élysées, natch, that charged me 35 francs for a small cup of coffee, which would have been about $10. In 1992, it seemed a small fortune. 

The upshot, as I’m sure you can imagine, was that we made coffee and hot chocolate at home at a lot. 

Chocolat Chaud - French Hot Chocolate

You can find chocolate powder in France but if you want to make traditional chocolat chaud, you need a good quality chocolate bar that is at least 70 percent cocoa. It’s also best made with whole milk. 

Ingredients
2 cups or 480ml whole milk
4.4 oz or 125g bittersweet chocolate, best-quality
2 tablespoons demerara or turbinado sugar or to taste

Method
Chop the chocolate roughly. (This chocolate was an Aldi buy. Great chocolate at a reasonable price.)

Chopping the chocolate

In a small pot, over a low flame, heat the milk until it just starts to steam. 

Remove the pot from the stove and add in the chopped chocolate. 

Adding the chocolate to the pot

Whisk until the chocolate is completely melted. 

Whisk till the chocolate is melted

Add sugar to taste or let everyone add sugar to their own cups. Serve immediately or return the hot chocolate to the stove and cook for a few more minutes for thicker hot chocolate. This hot chocolate can also be cooled then warmed again to serve. 

So chocolatey!

Serve warm in demitasse cups, or small coffee or tea cups. It's so lovely, rich and thick that the sugar doesn't really sink until you stir!

So thick the sugar doesn't sink until you stir!

Enjoy! 

Food Lust People Love: This chocolat chaud aka French Hot Chocolate is made the old fashioned way with hot milk and rich dark 85% cocoa chocolate. Add sugar or don't, to taste.

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